Chugoku Yanai LNG Terminal, Japan
Port · JPYAN · 33.95°, 132.12°
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 6
- vessel calls / yr
- 43
About the port
The World Port Index lists Chugoku Yanai LNG Terminal as a very small open roadstead harbour with poor shelter.
Listed depths: 17 m at the anchorage, 3 m at the cargo pier and 14 m at the oil terminal, with a mean rise of tide of 1 m.
PortWatch estimates 34 port calls at Chugoku Yanai LNG Terminal from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 3 a month, 3% fewer than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, tankers 100% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 208 thousand t imported and 0 t exported.
The busiest month was Jul 2026 (5 calls) and the quietest Nov 2025 (1).
What is reported near this port
6 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Chugoku Yanai LNG Terminal, the earliest issued in 1997; the most common types are quakes (6).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Chugoku Yanai LNG Terminal is not necessarily about the port; collection is incomplete between 2024-05 and 2026-08-17.
Port calls per month · IMF PortWatch estimates
Oct 2024 – Sep 2026 (last bar: month in progress) · last complete month Aug 2026: 2 calls, 0 t in, 0 t out
Warnings within 60 nm, by year of issue
In force within 60 nm · 0
Nothing in force within 60 nm right now.
Port characteristics · World Port Index
- harbour
- very small open roadstead
- shelter
- poor
- water body
- Sea of Japan; North Pacific Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI
- depths
- anchorage 17 m · cargo pier 3 m · oil terminal 14 m
- mean rise of tide
- 1 m
- tugs
- assistance
- berthing
- anchorage
- supplies
- fuel oil
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 159 (Enroute) - Japan - Volume II
- chart
- 97271
World Port Index entry Yanai (No. 62113), matched by UN/LOCODE. NGA Publication 150 (U.S. government work). The index describes the port as last surveyed for the publication; it is not a substitute for Sailing Directions or port authority information.
Share of Japan's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 0.1%, exports 0.0%.
Chokepoint and port data: IMF PortWatch (portwatch.imf.org) — IMF and the University of Oxford, via the UN Global Platform. Not for navigation — follow official NAVAREA / coastal broadcasts and port authority notices.